Oldhammer Adventures
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About the Project
Revisiting some old games and bringing them back to life and seeing if they are as good as I remember. This includes a bit of painting and modeling as well was forcing folk to play them.
Related Genre: Fantasy
Related Contest: Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2026
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Painted up
I've tried to match the sandstone scheme of the original board pieces and splashes of tile colour
Printing
Churning out the same amount of components in the original box set 
The magic circle in the round room clearly defined so it's easier to paint on
Dead end section with its suggestion of a rubble plleSteps up or down
Another problem is stairs. I can't really do stairs going down to the next level unless I elevate the rest of the board so they will always go upstairs.
Another problem are the doors. The original plastic kits had very flimsy hinges that would break. I don't think we have solved this with 3dprints. The doors in the game do need ho open and close. The other option is to do whole prints of open doors and empty doorways. At least we could add some variation in door styles.Size problems
A slight problem presented itself with the rooms size. The squares on the tile were made the same as the ones on the corridor sections but they aren't. Once printed I realised they are smaller.
They are smaller because they have an outer wall where doors are placed. So as you can see my room didn't fit beside the corridor sections
A quick fix in scale and I was back in business Returning to the dungeon
A friend of mine has been producing 3d Files for creating board pieces for warhammer quest. I asked if he could fo the same for advanced heroquest which is my dungeon crawler of choice. I sent him images of the board pieces znd he got to work recreating them, right down to the broken flagstones
Tricky making sure the jigsaw pieces work. I did say he dint need to go that far as flat pieces can just rest beside each other but he carried on
3d printing squats
I have a soft spot for old-school squats and have a few metals but browsing 3d printing websites I found some squat lookalikes in cults. They came unsupported but printed ok. I painted them up in the style of the old plastic box set art. I also found some files for trikes and bikes so might have a go at printing them.
Squares or round
What are these old squats doing on square bases?
That's better 
Fantasy on round bases, nnoooooo. I did a video on Advanced Heroquest and realised having round bases on a square grid board is a bit odd. I felt bad rebasing these old minis but it works better in my mind.
